2024-01-05 13:10:14
ORF General Director Roland Weißmann sees the accusation made by the Association of Austrian Newspapers (VÖZ) that the news site ORF.at, which was reformed on the basis of an amendment to the law, is a “deceit”, has “reached its limit”. “The reorganization of ORF.at complies with the legal requirements in all respects,” said the ORF boss.
With ORF.at we are also committed to those millions of users “who rightly demand that an ‘ORF for everyone’ continue to be informed in the best possible way,” Weißmann was quoted as saying in a broadcast. He sees a campaign against the ORF’s online presence that has been going on for several months, where reporting is mixed with owner interests. “We are therefore not afraid to take legal action if credit-damaging allegations continue to be made,” Weissmann threatened to take legal action.
ORF.at was a major bone of contention in the negotiations on the new ORF law. The country’s news site with the widest reach has been too “newspaper-like” for VÖZ for years. The number of text messages has now been legally limited to 350 articles per week. There is also a quota of 30 percent text and 70 percent audiovisual contributions. With regard to the maximum limit, according to ORF, pure headlines that, when clicked on, lead directly to a subpage of the ORF online presence such as science.ORF.at or topos.ORF.at are not taken into account. These subpages do not have a maximum limit for text messages. The nine federal state subsites such as wien.ORF.at or tirol.ORF.at do – there has been a limit of 80 reports per federal state per week since 2010. At sport.ORF.at there is no maximum limit, but there is also a quota of 30 percent text and 70 percent audiovisual contributions.
VÖZ managing director Gerald Grünberger told the APA on Thursday that ORF.at’s “newspaper similarity” still exists. The ORF law is a “sham package” because it allows overview reporting and other ORF online orders to be mixed on the “blue page” and enables more than 350 text reports per week. He held out the prospect of bringing the issue to the media authority KommAustria.
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